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  • Amid war and turmoil, Kuwait emir struggled for Gulf unity

    Kuwait’s emir, an unwavering champion of Arab detente amid wars and regional tumult, helped lead his country out of the ruin of Iraq’s 1990 invasion to renewed riches and a Gulf mediator role, first as its top diplomat and later as ruler.

  • Saudi Cabinet: International community must deal firmly with Iran’s nuclear violations

    Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet reiterated the Kingdom’s position that the international community must take a firm stand towards Iran, and deal seriously against its violations related to its nuclear program, the state news agency reported in a statement early on Wednesday.

  • Saudi Arabia’s king, crown prince offer condolences after death of Kuwaiti emir

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent their condolences to the people of Kuwait and the Al-Sabah family over the death of Kuwait's emir on Tuesday. “With utmost grief and sorrow the news of the death of His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jabir Al-Sabah, the Emir of the State of Kuwait, may Allah bestows mercy upon him and rest him in His widely vast paradise,” read a statement on Saudi Press Agency.

  • Saudi Arabia Says It Dismantled an Iran-Backed Terrorist Cell

    Saudi Arabia said it dismantled a terrorist cell with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the latest indication of heightened tensions in the Middle East as the two longtime rivals compete for regional supremacy. Saudi security forces arrested 10 people on Sept. 23, including three the kingdom said had received military training and instruction in making bombs in late 2017 at sites in Iran belonging to the Guards, the Saudi national security agency said late Monday. It didn’t identify the suspects, citing continuing investigations.

  • Kuwait’s Patient Statesman

    Sabah al-Ahmed had an extraordinarily long diplomatic career. During his 40 years as Kuwait’s foreign minister, he demonstrated an appreciation of Kuwait’s limitations as a small state and pursued an active agenda to compensate for them. He pioneered Kuwait’s policy of maintaining good relations with a broad array of countries, balancing between great powers and championing Arab and nonaligned movements.

  • Kuwait Emir Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah dies at age 91

    Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah, who ruled over his oil-rich country since 2006 and had been its foreign minister for 40 years, including during Saddam Hussein’s invasion, has died. He was 91. He is expected to be succeeded by his 83-year-old half-brother, Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Sabah.

  • The Ship That Stopped 7,000 Migrants, and Smuggled 700,000 Cigarettes

    The bust has tarnished what European leaders have portrayed as a tough-minded, but principled, effort to curb migration to the continent. At the time of the incident, European states — particularly Italy — were closing their ports to migrants, criminalizing the private crews that rescued them in the Mediterranean and outsourcing responsibility for search-and-rescue operations to the Libyan Coast Guard.

  • Social Spending in Middle East Is Still Lagging Peers, IMF Says

    “Education, health, and poverty indicators in the Middle East and Central Asia have improved substantially over the past two decades,” the IMF said in a report on Tuesday. “The rate of progress, however, has slowed, and these indicators remain weaker than in global peers. The level of social spending also is lower, though to a lesser degree.”

  • Rystad expects swift recovery in offshore oil and gas pipeline market led by Middle East

    Although it is set for a significant drop from last year’s 2,913 km, offshore trunkline demand is holding up much better now than during the previous downturn, when demand plummeted to just 938 km in 2016 from 2,488 km the year before.

  • Egypt Offers the Middle East’s First Sovereign Green Bond

    The Arab world’s most populous nation is offering one tranche of five-year notes at an initial guidance of about 5.75%, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly.